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Title: The Boy with the U. S. Weather Men

Author: Francis William Rolt-Wheeler

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U. S. Service Series.

THE BOY WITH THE U. S. WEATHER MEN

by

FRANCIS ROLT-WHEELER

With Seventy-two Illustrations from Photographs

[Illustration: Publisher's logo]

Boston
Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Co.

[Illustration: THE FUNNEL OF DEATH.

Photograph of a tornado in Kansas, taken less than a minute before it
struck the point where the camera had stood.

(This is one of the best tornado photographs in the world and has not
been retouched.)

_Courtesy of Geo. S. Bliss, U.S. Weather Bureau, Philadelphia, Pa._]

Published, September, 1917

Copyright, 1917
By Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Co.
All rights reserved

THE BOY WITH THE U. S. WEATHER MEN

Norwood Press
Berwick & Smith Co
Norwood, Mass.
U. S. A.

PREFACE

The savage fury of the tempest and the burning splendor of the sun in
all ages have stirred the human race to fear and wonder. All the great
stories and legends of the world began as weather stories. The
lightnings were the thunderbolts of Jove, the thunder was the rolling of
celestial chariot-wheels, and the rains of spring were a goddess weeping
for her daughter, Nature, held a captive in the icy prison of Winter.

We know a great deal more about the forces of the Weather than the
ancients did, yet we know but little still. The hurricane does not come
unheralded to our shores, the freezing grip of a cold wave is fore